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Kaggle: crowdsourcing genius or statistical anomaly?
November 14, 2011… is a classic example) which tend to market crowdsourcing as a rewarding hobby rather than a career choice. Professionalizing will be a major challenge. Can Goldbloom really guarantee enough competitions to support thousands of workers? At the time of writing, Kaggle has over 17,000 data analysts and only 12 active competitions. Okay, there are a couple of big prizes up for grabs, but I certainly wouldn’t want to depend on Kaggle for a regular income.
Investors clearly see …
Getting paid to party: what is the difference between work and play?
July 17, 2010… in the 2000s. Today, professional gaming is apparently starting to be accepted as a legitimate career choice in Korea, while the World Bank is commissioning a study on gold farmers. Scholars like me have chosen to write about game economies, which for better or worse, tends to have a legitimizing effect on the subject. It thus looks like the cultural boundaries of work and play are on the move. If you are not confused about work and play today, you probably will be tomorrow!
Let me …
Taking discrimination to task
May 26, 2010… enable a worker’s talents and contributions to be more clearly recognized and also mean that a career is less of a linear progression from the mailroom to CEO. Advancement will be based on desire, merit and achievement – not just how many continuous hours, weeks, years you managed to look busy at your desk.
For certain careers, it won’t matter if a person is working from home, or nursing a baby, or of a particular gender or ethnicity. The only consideration will be performance of …
Tailoring to everyone’s needs
April 9, 2010… an ideal world I’d like to design and make my own clothes. Unhappily for me however, my sewing career came to an abrupt halt at age nine, when I sewed together all four sides of the pillowcase I was working on for sewing class. I could handle the supposedly “cool” kids (those who took subjects more manly than sewing) mocking me, but when the geeky sewing kids started making fun of me too, I realized perhaps it wasn’t for me. It was time to get out.
Now, when I’m walking around …
Authors
December 10, 2009… entrepreneur and technologist. He’s been programming since the early 80′s, and has his made career in high-tech in the field of 3D computer graphics. Wili is a world traveller and a semi-professional photographer. Wili is the CEO of Microtask.
Tommaso De Benetti
Tommaso is a young and dynamic lover of media and communications. Spending most of his time discussing the industries of games and media, he also runs a popular podcast in Italian and an awesome digital …
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